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Hundreds of pancreatic cancer patients are dying needlessly because of treatment delays after diagnosis, a major report has warned.

More than 800 pancreatic cancer patients diagnosed at stage one or two do not receive life saving surgery, even though it raises the chances of their survival ten fold.

Without surgery just 2.3 per cent of people survive for five years or longer, but that rises to 22.3 per cent for those who have their tumour removed.

A new report by Pancreatic Cancer UK warns that patients often have to wait months for tests to determine whether they are eligible for surgery by which point it is often too late. Two thirds of patients who could be treated with surgery do not recieved...

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